Good morning to all you good hearted, yet deplorable Dawgs…..Thursday….June 4th is National Cheese Day……Where do I start?.......There are some things in life that just make everything better…..Cheese is one of them…….Aside from being the ultimate comfort food, cheese is one of those universally delicious things that pairs well with pretty much anything in your daily diet……This cheese talk reminds me to ask my bride to purchase some more Amaretto flavored cheese…….It’s a great snack with a cracker…….Oh, BTW, today is also National Cognac Day…….Cognac, which I understand is a variety of Brandy, goes great with a cheese spread…..Producers create close to 200 cognacs to choose from……..According to one estimate, more than 90% of cognac for the U.S. market comes from only four producers……Now you know…..Take care fellow Dawgs……..
UGA SPORTS SPOTLIGHT:
I’m gonna mention a Dawg great in the UGA sports spotlight section this morning, just to make sure at least something Dawg is mentioned today in this “DAWGChat” forum…Today the Georgia Bulldog in the spotlight is former Dawg Offensive Lineman Ray Donaldson………
Ray Donaldson received High School All-American and All‐State honors…….His jersey has since been retired……..
Ray was a 1979 All-SEC selection at University of Georgia………..
Ray was selected to play in the East–West Shrine Game and the Senior Bowl Game……..
Ray was First team All-AFC in 1988…….
Ray was a starter on the Dallas Cowboys team that won a Super Bowl championship in 1995…….
Ray became the first African-American to play center in the NFL……….(some say first, some say second)…………
Ray played in 244 NFL games, and was a starter in 228 of those games……….
Ray was named to six Pro Bowl squads while with Baltimore/Indianapolis, Seattle, and Dallas…
Ray was Inducted into the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame in 2006……In 2010, Ray was inducted into the Rome Sports Hall of Fame……….
(Ray with Coach Sam Pittman)
Does Ray Donaldson belong in the Hall of Fame? The jury, obviously, remains out. But when you play 17 seasons, start 228 games, go to six Pro Bowls, block for two NFL rushing champions and win a Super Bowl, you certainly deserve consideration…….
Ray currently resides in Indianapolis, Indiana where he is a high school football coach…….Ray Donaldson is a DGD………
SOME “STUFF YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED YOU DON”T KNOW” AND SOME “STUFF YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED YOU DO KNOW”……(by year/comments)
1674 - Horse racing was prohibited in Massachusetts.
1754 Lieutenant Colonel George Washington builds Fort Necessity
1783 Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier make 1st public hot-air balloon flight (unmanned), covering 2km and lasting 10 minutes with an estimated altitude of 1,600-2,000m
1784 Madame Elizabeth Thible becomes the first female balloonist
1805 Tripoli forced to conclude peace with US after war over tribute
1812 Louisiana Territory officially renamed "Missouri Territory"
1816 - The Washington was launched at Wheeling, WV. It was the first stately, double-decker steamboat.
1825 Unseasonable hurricane hits NYC
1838 First baseball-type game in Canada played at Beachville, Upper Canada
1850 Self-deodorizing fertilizer patented in England
1875 Pacific Stock Exchange opens
1876 An express train called the Transcontinental Express arrives in San Francisco, California, via the First Transcontinental Railroad only 83 hours and 39 minutes after having left New York City.
1892 Oil City and Titusville, Pennsylvania, destroyed by oil tank explosion; 130 die
1896 Henry Ford takes his 1st Ford through streets of Detroit
1911 - Gold was discovered in Alaska's Indian Creek.
1912 Cone of Mount Katmai (Alaska) collapses
1912 Massachusetts passes 1st US minimum wage law
1917 1st Pulitzer prize awarded to Richards & Elliott (Julia Ward Howe)
1917 American men begin registering for the draft
1919 US Congress passes the Women's Suffrage Bill, the 19th Amendment
1919 US marines invade Costa Rica
1924 - An eternal light was dedicated at Madison Square in New York City in memory of all New York soldiers who died in World War I.
1927 1st Ryder Cup Golf, Worcester CC: US beats Great Britain, 9½-2½; Walter Hagen first American captain; Ted Ray first GB skipper
1927 Johnny Weissmuller set swim records in 100-yard & 200-yard free-style
1931 - The first rocket-glider flight was made by William Swan in Atlantic City, NJ.
1935 - "Invisible" glass was patented by Gerald Brown and Edward Pollard.
1938 10th Walker Cup: Britain-Ireland wins 7½-4½ at the Old Course at St Andrews
1939 - The first shopping cart was introduced by Sylvan Goldman in Oklahoma City, OK. It was actually a folding chair that had been mounted on wheels.
1940 British complete the "Miracle of Dunkirk" by evacuating 338,226 allied troops from France via a flotilla of over 800 vessels including Royal Navy destroyers, merchant marine boats, fishing boats, pleasure craft and even lifeboats
1941 Nazis forbid Jews access to beaches & swimming pools
1941 Republic of Croatia orders all Jews to wear a star with the letter Z
1942 Battle of Midway begins; Japan's 1st major defeat in WW II
1942 Capitol Record Co opens for business
1942 "Mrs Miniver" based on the novel by Jan Struther, directed by William Wyler and starring Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon is released in the US (Best Picture 1943)
1944 Michelle Phillips, American singer and actress (Mamas & Papas), born in Long Beach, California
1944 - "Leonidas Witherall" was first broadcast on the Mutual Broadcasting System.
1944 U505 becomes the first German submarine captured and boarded on high seas
1944 General Eisenhower cancels planned D-Day invasion on June 5th after receiving unfavorable weather reports
1945 6th US Marine division occupies Orokoe Peninsula Okinawa
1945 US, Soviet Union, Britain and France agree to divide up occupied Germany
1945 Gordon Waller, Scottish singer (Peter & Gordon-World Without Love), born in Braemar, Aberdeenshire, Scotland (d. 2009)
1946 Largest solar prominence (300,000 mi/500,000 km) observed
1947 US House of Representatives approves Taft-Hartley act
1949 "Cavalcade of Stars" debuts (DuMont); Jackie Gleason made host in 1950
1954 Arthur Murray flies X-1A rocket plane to record 27,000 m
1954 France grants Vietnam independence inside French Union
1955 "Mickey Rooney Show" TV comedy last airs on NBC
1957 1st commercial coal pipeline placed in operation
1958 San Francisco Giants Hank Sauer and Bob Schmidt are first in NL history to hit consecutive pinch-hit HRs in 10-9 win over the Milwaukee Braves
1961 US President John F. Kennedy and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev meet at the Vienna Summit in Austria
1964 LA Dodger Sandy Koufax 3rd no-hitter beats Phil Phillies, 3-0
1964 The Dixie Cups had the #1 hit song in America with “Chapel of Love”
1966 Janis Joplin arrives in San Francisco to join Big Brother & the Holding Company as their new lead singer.
1967 Curt Flood's record 568 straight chances without an error ends (227 straight games)
1967 Stockport Air Disaster: British Midland flight G-ALHG crashes in Hopes Carr, Stockport, killing 72 passengers and crew
1968 Don Drysdale pitches his 6th straight shutout, en route to 58 innings
1967 19th Emmy Awards: "Mission Impossible", "The Monkees", Don Knotts & Lucillle Ball are the big winners
1969 Beatles release "The Ballad Of John & Yoko" and "Old Brown Shoe" in the US
1969 22-year-old man sneaks into wheel pod of a jet parked in Havana and survives 9-hr flight to Spain despite thin oxygen levels at 29,000 ft
1970 43rd National Spelling Bee: Libby Childress wins spelling croissant
1970 San Diego Padres draft Mike Ivie #1
1970 Carlos Santana records "Black Magic Woman."
1972 Angela Davis, African American activist, acquitted of killing a white guard
1973 A patent for the ATM is granted to Don Wetzel, Tom Barnes and George Chastain
1973 Murray Wilson, father of Beach Boys Brian, Carl & Dennis, dies at 55
1974 NFL grants franchise to Seattle Seahawks
1974 - Sally Murphy became the first woman to qualify as an aviator with the U.S. Army.
1974 Never repeated 10 cent Beer Night at Cleveland, unruly fans stumble onto field and cause Indians to forfeit the game to Rangers with score tied 5-5 in 9th
1975 Oldest animal fossils in US discovered in North Carolina
1975 John Denver’s “Thank God I’m A Country Boy” is the #1 song in America
1977 French Open Women's Tennis: Mima Jaušovec of Yugoslavia wins her lone Grand Slam singles title; beats Florența Mihai of Romania 6-2, 6-7, 6-1
1978 32nd Tony Awards: "Da" and "Ain't Misbehavin'" win
1978 Canadian Open Golf (Peter Jackson Classic), Lachute GC: JoAnne Carner wins by 8 strokes from Hollis Stacy
1979 Joe Clark is sworn in as the youngest Prime Minister in Canadian history
1979 Fleetwood Mac records the USC Trojan Marching Band at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles for use in their song "Tusk"
1981 54th National Spelling Bee: Paige Pipkin wins spelling sarcophagus
1982 "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan," released in USA
1983 French Open Women's Tennis: Chris Evert beats Mima Jausovec of Yugoslavia 6-1, 6-2 for her 15th Grand Slam title and 5th French singles crown
1984 18th Music City News Country Awards: Statler Brothers
1984 1960 champion Arnold Palmer fails to qualify for the US Open Golf Championship for the first time in 32 years
1984 DNA is successfully cloned from an extinct animal
1984 NY Mets draft Shawn Abner, 17 years old, #1
1984 Bruce Springsteen releases the album Born In The U.S.A.
1985 Supreme Court strikes down Alabama "moment of silence" law
1986 Jonathan Pollard, spy for Israel, pleads guilty in US court
1986 - The California Supreme Court approved a law that limited the liability of manufacturers and other wealthy defendants. It was known as the "deep pockets law."
1987 American hurdler Edwin Moses' 122 race winning streak which extends to nearly 10 years ends when he is beaten by countryman Danny Harris in Madrid, Spain
1988 "Cabaret" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 262 performances
1988 42nd Tony Awards: "M Butterfly" and "Phantom of the Opera" win
1988 Rickey Henderson steals 2 bases for record 249 as a NY Yankee
1988 French Open Women's Tennis: Steffi Graf dominates Natalia Zvereva of Belarus 6-0, 6-0; shortest women's singles Grand Slam final in Open Era; 32 minutes
1989 43rd Tony Awards: Heidi Chronicles & Jerome Robbin's Broadway win
1989 Beijing policeman shoots & wounds Chinese priemer Li Ping
1989 Eastern Europe's 1st partial free elections in 40 years held in Poland, Solidarity Party comes to power
1989 Largest parade in Bronx history honors 350th anniversary
1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre: Chinese troops clear the square of student protesters, unofficial figures place death toll near 1,000
1990 24th Music City News Country Awards: R Van Shelton & Patty Loveless are the big winners
1990 Greyhound Bus files bankruptcy
1990 LA Dodger Ramon Martinez strikes out 18 Atlanta Braves
1990 Dr Jack Kevorkian assists an Oregon woman to commit suicide, beginning a national debate over the right to die
1991 Pope John Paul II compares abortion with Nazi murders
1992 San Jose voters reject Giants plan to build a new stadium
1992 USPS announces the young Elvis stamp beats the old Elvis stamp in the vote count
1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is signed in New York
1994 Derek "Lek" Leckenby, English rock guitarist (Herman's Hermits), dies of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma at 48
1995 "Jackie Mason: Politically Incorrect" closes at Golden NYC at 347 performances
1995 49th Tony Awards: Love! Valour! Compassion! & Sunset Boulevard win
1995 New Zealand creates world record score for a Rugby Union international in thrashing Japan, 145-17 in the World Cup in Bloomfontein, RSA; Marc Ellis 6 tries, Simon Culhane 20 conversions
1997 UN Security renews its "oilforfood" initiative whereby Iraq may sell $2 billion worth of oil to buy food, medicine and other necessities to alleviate civilian suffering under the sanctions imposed when it invaded Kuwait in 1990
1998 Terry Nichols is sentenced to life in prison for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing
2000 54th Tony Awards: "Copenhagen" and "Contact" win
2003 - Amazon.com announced that it had received more than 1 million orders for the book "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix." The released date was planned for June 21.
2003 Martha Stewart indicted for securities fraud and obstruction of justice
2005 Panamanian jockey Eddie Castro sets a North American record with 9 wins on the 13-race card at Calder Race Course in Miami, Florida
2008 Stanley Cup Final, Civic Center, Pittsburgh, PA: Detroit Red Wings defeat Pittsburgh Penguins, 3-2 for a 4-2 series win; Red Wings' 11th Championship
2008 - The United Kingdom and Canada became the first countries to be able to buy and rent films at the iTunes Store.
2011 French Open Women's Tennis: Li Na becomes first Chinese player to win a Grand Slam singles title; beats Italian defending champion Francesca Schiavone 6-4, 7-6
2012 Herb [Herbert] Reed, American musician (The Platters), dies at 83
2012 US drone attack kills 15 militants in Pakistan, including high ranking al-Qaeda official, Abu Yahya al-Libi
2012 Japan's stock market plummets to record lows with the S&P/TOPIX 150 reaching its lowest level since 1983
2012 MLB Draft: Puerto Rico Academy & HS shortstop Carlos Correa first pick by Houston Astros
2013 Cornelius "Nini" Harp (lead singer of The Marcels) dies of natural causes at age 73.
2014 10 Nigerian generals and five other senior military officers have been courts-martialed for providing arms and information to Boko Haram
2016 French Open Women's Tennis: Garbiñe Muguruza of Spain beats Serena Williams 7-5, 6-4 to claim her 1st Grand Slam title
2018 Former US President Bill Clinton and James Patterson publish a thriller novel "The President is Missing" together
2018 Former US President Bill Clinton in interview with NBC says he hasn't and doesn't need to apologize to Monica Lewinsky
2019 Former US school security guard Scot Peterson arrested and charged with neglect of a child and culpable negligence for not confronting gunman during Parkland school massacre in a landmark case
2019 Over 100,000 people mark the 30th anniversary of Beijing's Tiananmen Square Massacre in Hong Kong and around the world
2019 Movement in Japan to end compulsory wearing of high heels in works places behind hashtag #KuToo
2019 Deforestation of the Amazon forest in Brazil the fastest for a decade as 740 square kilometers cleared in 30 days according to Brazilian space research institute
2019 Wes Studi is the first Native American actor to receive an Oscar, a honorary award for career achievement
2019 Professional gambler James Holzhauer's 32-game winning steak ends on "Jeopardy" just short of Ken Jenning's record $2.52m earnings
2019 SF MLB manager Bruce Bochy reaches 1,000 win mark with the club as Giants beat Mets, 9-3 in NYC; second after legendary John McGraw to reach milestone
(to be continued--see following response)
